Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, what most U. S. citizens consider the greatest munitions firm in the country was called to the carpet. Accompanied by a buzzing swarm of lawyers, secretaries and assistants, the three brothers du Pont, Pierre. Lammot, Irènée. with their cousin Felix, all of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., stepped into the white marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building to give their testimony. A square-jawed fact: the du Pont company had made a profit of $250,000,000 during the War, paid 195% in dividends, and salted its winnings away...
...that was not enough to soothe foreign pride. When over the categorical denial of President John S. Allard of Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.. it was proved that the latter's firm had paid "palm oil" to Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia, protests continued pouring in. Within a few days Secretary Hull had no less than 15 on his hands. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced that it had been reported to him that Latin Americans, sensitive about bribe-taking, would cancel all U. S. trade contracts unless the Senate investigation was conducted more privately. Chilean Minister...
...second year of the War found France worrying more than usual about her declining birth rate. ... A blackmailing publisher of a small Paris paper hit upon a plan to shake down the firm of Pernod Fils, large absinthe manufacturers, by threatening to campaign for the prohibition of absinthe. His plan of attack took advantage of the following popular beliefs...
Evidence seemed to indicate that this U. S.-controlled firm had backed the Austrian Nazis who assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME...
...Robert Henry ("Roy-') Faulkner, onetime vice president in charge of sales, had received an option on 5,000 shares of Auburn stock when he became Auburn's president (TIME, Sept. 3). Advertising Director William M. Baldwin and Assistant General Sales Manager Kenneth Strachan opened their own advertising firm-Baldwin & Strachan-in Buffalo...